[Chorus: Anderson .Paak & JID]

You should've been downtown (Word)

The people are rising (For real?)

We thought it was a lockdown (What? Yeah)

They opened the fire (Man)

Them bullets was flyin' (Ooh)

Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (Ugh, look)

[Verse 1: JID]

It's a war going on outside, I swear to God

I'm on the front line, no front, no cap, no fun-size

Sunshine, cinnamon skin

People blend in together and ride side by side, organized

We bust guns at the same time, harmonize (Ooh-ooh)

Form a line, pick a lead, take a leap

Lead with love, please, you sound like Dr. King

People tired of taking beatings from beasts covered in sheets

I love niggas, but we too forgiving for how they treating us

Reparations, bit', we tryna get even

Just run the paper maybe, then we can start the conversation

Common ground, prison compounds full of my fuckin' people

How you still sleepin'? Have you had your coffee this evening, Karen?

'Cause you seem a little off

All the black girls missin' and endin' up inside the coffins

But you mad when they hashtag "BlackLivesMatter" on front your sidewalk

Diabolical thoughts, diatribe from dialogues

Damaging images of men and women who died off

Fighting for civil rights, a simple necessity

Given when you given life, but we been trippin'? Right (Skrrt)

[Chorus: Anderson .Paak]

You should've been downtown (Ooh)

The people are rising (Ah)

We thought it was a lockdown (Shit)

They opened the fire (Bah, bah, ooh-wee)

Them bullets was flying (Lockdown)

Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie

(We ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to)

[Post-Chorus: Anderson .Paak]

Downtown, where I got popped with the rubber bullet

Trey-pound, got it in my name now, I'ma shoot it

[Verse 2: Noname]

Uh, maybe this round two

Government cinematic, American drive-thru

Eat their apple pie in the morning then bury the strange fruit

Then marry the strange fruit and call it the Black love

So when he bleeds, I bleed, the sacred riddle

Ain't no money I can make to make the cops get little

We seen 'em murder the indigenous, the Passage Middle

The Constitution, a life for a bag of Skittles

So when we bleed, I load the sacred pistol

And if you need, I'll read Assata with you

And if you rich, I pray that God forgive you

Supposed to share the garden, grow the Holy in you

Maybe everything is a metaphor, one God

An African liberation is ready to take arms

They telling you, "Stay calm," they double-barrel the shotty

And stand on a graveyard and tell you to slave on

[Chorus: Anderson .Paak]

Downtown (Down)

The people are rising (Look around)

We thought it was a lockdown (Shit, lockdown)

They opened the fire (Had to get low, fire)

Them bullets was flying (Down, down)

Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (Ooh—)

[Verse 3: Jay Rock]

Turn on your tube, dawg, look how they do us

Knee on our necks, bullets in backs, stimulus checks

Strictly for Blacks? History repeating

People scared to eat a chicken, everybody going vegan

What they put in it?

Look at the world we living in, they got us shook in it

You go on your jog, then your color might get you took in it

Man in the mirror, don't look away, you better look at it

Black lives matter, so what it means when they shoot at it?

Generation, genocide, what happened to enterprise?

Heard the man infiltrated, Black Panther, re-energize

Nothin' to figure out, they tryna kill us out

If I take a kneel, see my fist, I'm a killer now?

Just think, bullshit you gotta filter out

Are you really ready for the smoke like a Swishahouse?

Ready for the revolution, who ready to ride?

It won't be televised, so tell me, who ready to die?

Know the difference from a 'pan' and a 'plan'demic

Just a bunch of bullshit, how we land in it?

You either fall for anything or you stand in it

It's a lot going on on this damn mission

Big B.G. used to sell microchips

Now he out here pushing vaccines?

It's 'bout to be another lockdown

Feelin' like D.C., fuck you mean?

[Chorus: Anderson .Paak]

Downtown (Down)

The people are risin' (Look around)

We thought it was a lockdown (Lockdown)

They opened the fire (Had to get low, fire)

Them bullets was flyin' (Down, down)

Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (Ooh-wee)

[Post-Chorus: Anderson .Paak]

Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to

Downtown, where I got popped with the rubber bullet

Trey-pound, got it in my name now (Uh), I'ma shoot it

Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to

Downtown

[Outro]

Citizens of Los Angeles

I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly

And in the name of the people of the State of California

I command all those assembled

Right here

On Lomitas Avenue

(Let's go, let's go)

Come on, right here